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enA Cuppa Matcha With Your Crickets? On The Menu In 2015http://wvasfm.org/post/cuppa-matcha-your-crickets-menu-2015
It's time to set the table for 2015. What will be the next kale? Has the cupcake breathed its last?<p>We're headed for high times. As states legalize marijuana, cannabis comestibles are coming. Pot brownies — so 1960s — are joined by marijuana mac 'n' cheese and pot pesto. There's a new cooking show called <em>Bong Appetit</em>.<p>Another crushed leaf is this year's superdrink. Matcha is made from green tea and promises a calmer energy boost than Red Bull.Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:40:00 +0000Bonny Wolf59443 at http://wvasfm.orgFighting (Tasty) Invasive Fish With Forks And Knives http://wvasfm.org/post/fighting-tasty-invasive-fish-forks-and-knives
Add kitchen knives to the list of weapons that humans are using to fight invasive species. I'm talking about fish who've made their way into nonnative waters.<p>How do they get here? Sometimes they catch a ride in the ballast water of ships. Or they're imported as live food or dumped out of aquariums. Once here, they can wipe out native fish, trash the ecosystem and wreck the beach business.<p>Take the <a href="http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatics/snakehead.shtml">northern snakehead</a>, which has made its way into tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.Sun, 17 Aug 2014 09:25:00 +0000Bonny Wolf53172 at http://wvasfm.orgFighting (Tasty) Invasive Fish With Forks And Knives The Milkman's Comeback Means Dairy At The Door And Morehttp://wvasfm.org/post/milkmans-comeback-means-dairy-door-and-more
You don't even have to get out of your PJs to go to the farmers market now.<p>All over the country, trucks are now delivering fresh milk, organic vegetables and humanely raised chickens to your door — though in New York, the deliveries come by bike.<p>Fifty years ago, about 30 percent of milk still came from the milkman.Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:15:00 +0000Bonny Wolf49778 at http://wvasfm.orgThe Milkman's Comeback Means Dairy At The Door And MoreEating Tea And Other Food Predictions For 2014http://wvasfm.org/post/eating-tea-and-other-food-predictions-2014
At the beginning of every year, we read the tea leaves to see what new food trends we'll be tasting in the coming months. This year, the tea itself is the trend.<p>Tea leaves will be big in entrees, desserts and, of course, cocktails. Starbucks has opened its first tea shop.<p>We won't be just drinking tea; Artisan distilling keeps on growing. This could be the year of gin, made with local botanicals as well as the traditional juniper berry.<p>New — but still ancient — grains will join the now-common spelt and quinoa.Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:31:00 +0000Bonny Wolf40701 at http://wvasfm.orgEating Tea And Other Food Predictions For 2014Why You Shouldn't Wrinkle Your Nose At Fermentationhttp://wvasfm.org/post/why-you-shouldnt-wrinkle-your-nose-fermentation
<em>It's delicious, it's nutritious and it's basically rotten. Fermentation is a hot culinary trend, and, as </em>Weekend Edition<em><em> food commentator Bonny Wolf explains, </em></em><em> the preservation process gives food a flavor unique to time and place.</em><p>People you know may intentionally be growing bacteria in their homes — on food, outside the refrigerator. And they are doing it to make food safe, and nutritious.<p>They are doing what cooks have always done: fermenting food.<p>For decades, we have fought against bacteria in our food.Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:57:00 +0000Bonny Wolf25798 at http://wvasfm.orgWhy You Shouldn't Wrinkle Your Nose At FermentationOysters Rebound In Popularity With Man-Made Bountyhttp://wvasfm.org/post/oysters-rebound-popularity-man-made-bounty
<em>In Colonial Virginia, oysters were plentiful; Capt. John Smith said they lay "thick as stones." But as the wild oyster harvest has shrunk,</em> Weekend Edition<em> food commentator Bonny Wolf says the market for farm-raised oysters is booming.</em><p>The local food movement is expanding from fertile fields to brackish waters.<p>Along the rivers and bays of the East Coast, where wild oysters have been decimated by man and nature, harvests of farm-raised oysters are increasing by double digits every year.Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:37:00 +0000Bonny Wolf21929 at http://wvasfm.orgOysters Rebound In Popularity With Man-Made BountyOn Your Plate In 2013, Expect Kimchi And Good-For-You Greenshttp://wvasfm.org/post/your-plate-2013-expect-kimchi-and-good-you-greens
Weekend Edition <em>food commentator Bonny Wolf offers her predictions of what we'll eat in the new year.</em><p>Asia is the new Europe. It's been gradual: from pan-Asian, Asian fusion and Asian-inspired to just deciding among Vietnamese, Korean, Tibetan and Burmese for dinner.<p>Should we have the simple food of the Thai plateau or the hot, salty, sour foods of southern Thailand?<p>The new flavors of the year won't come from the kitchens of chefs trained at Le Cordon Bleu. More likely, they'll trickle up from Asian street foods.Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:12:00 +0000Bonny Wolf20536 at http://wvasfm.orgOn Your Plate In 2013, Expect Kimchi And Good-For-You GreensWild Turkeys Gobble Their Way To A Comebackhttp://wvasfm.org/post/wild-turkeys-gobble-their-way-comeback
Wild turkeys and buffalo have more in common than you might guess. Both were important as food for Native Americans and European settlers. And both were nearly obliterated.<p>There were a couple of reasons for the turkey's decline. In the early years of the U.S., there was no regulation, so people could shoot as many turkeys as they liked. And their forest habitat was cut down for farmland and heating fuel. Without trees, turkeys have nowhere to roost. So they began to disappear.<p>By the early 1900s, there were only about 30,000 wild turkeys left in the whole country.Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:45:00 +0000Bonny Wolf18197 at http://wvasfm.orgWild Turkeys Gobble Their Way To A ComebackTo Find Truly Wild Rice, Head North To Minnesotahttp://wvasfm.org/post/find-truly-wild-rice-head-north-minnesota
Harvest season is upon us, but in the U.S.'s northern lakes, it's not just the last tomatoes and first pumpkins. Through the end of this month, canoes will glide into lakes and rivers for the annual gathering of wild rice, kick started with the popular <a href="http://www.cityofroseville.com/index.aspx?nid=1396">Wild Rice Festival</a> in Roseville, Minn., on Saturday.<p>Wild rice - an aquatic grass that bears a resemblance to the edible grain - has been the center of the Ojibway Indian diet and culture for centuries.Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:23:00 +0000Bonny Wolf15166 at http://wvasfm.orgTo Find Truly Wild Rice, Head North To MinnesotaSince When Does Summer Taste Like Doughnuts?http://wvasfm.org/post/when-does-summer-taste-doughnuts
I <em>get</em> saltwater taffy. You're at an ocean that is made of salt water. But doughnuts?<p>I'm clearly missing something, because many summer communities have doughnut shops, often open just for the season.Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:08:00 +0000Bonny Wolf11060 at http://wvasfm.orgSince When Does Summer Taste Like Doughnuts?